Jacqueline Fleming, Irving McPhail

Success Factors for Minorities in Engineering (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to isolate specific success factors for underrepresented minorities in undergraduate engineering programs. Based on a three-phase study spearheaded by the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, the findings include evidence that hands-on exposure to problem-based courses, research, and especially internships are powerful catalysts for engineering success, and that both college adjustment and academic skills matter, in varying degrees, to minority success. By encompassing an unusually large number and range of programs, this research adds to the evidence base for the importance of hands-on exposure to the work of engineering.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429762857
• Artikelnr.: 55636187

Autorenporträt

Jacqueline Fleming is a psychologist and independent researcher based in Pearland, Texas.

Irving Pressley McPhail is Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at The McPhail Group LLC.

Inhaltsangabe

i Preface
1. The National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering:
Its History and Mission
2. Minorities in Engineering: Review of the Literature and Overview of
the Study
3. Performance and Retention to Graduation Rates of Minority Students in
NACME Block Grant Institutions: Analysis of Aggregate Statistical
Data
4. Profile of Minorities in Engineering: Analysis of Focus Group
Conversations
5. Profile of Minorities in Engineering: Analysis of Focus Group
Mini-Surveys by Gender Within Ethnicity
6. The College Adjustment of Minorities and Non-Minorities in
Engineering
7. The College Adjustment of Black and Hispanic Students in Engineering
8. The Intersection of Gender and Ethnicity in the College Adjustment of
Engineering Students
9. Black Engineering Students in Black and White Colleges
10. Success Factors for Minorities in Engineering: Summary and
Conclusions
11. A Postscript on NACME Scholars
12. Policy Implications: A Call to Action